Chill Factor (1999)

Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet UlrichRated R

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This movie has been screened for objectional content in 15 areas. Click for a detailed look.

OUR WORD TO PARENTS:The following is a brief summary of the content in this R-rated action/adventure film. Violence is extreme with many people being killed, whether via explosions, gunshots or having their throats slit. Some of the results are bloody, some of the scenes may be tense to some viewers and the perpetrators obviously have bad attitudes.Profanity is extreme with more than 10 "f" and 50 "s" words being used, along with other profanities and plenty of colorful phrases. Beyond all of that and related material (an extreme amount of suspenseful music, some other bad attitudes), and a brief instance of someone smoking a joint, the rest of the film's categories have relatively little or nothing in the way of major objectionable material.Nonetheless, should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, we suggest that you take a closer look at the listed content.

QUICK TAKE:

Action/Adventure: A mismatched pair of unlikely heroes tries to prevent a renegade former Army officer from obtaining a devastating weapon.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?

Those looking for another action/buddy picture, or who are fans of Gooding or Ulrich may want to see it.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R

For violence and language.

CAST AS ROLE MODELS:

CUBA GOODING JR. plays an ice cream delivery man who's stolen his truck from his boss before he gets wrapped up in this mess. After that he does what it takes to survive and uses strong profanity and some violence along the way.

SKEET ULRICH plays a young man with a trouble past who finds himself in the same situation as Arlo and similarly uses strong profanity.

PETER FIRTH plays the former military officer who goes bad and kills many people as he tries to acquire and then sell a formidable weapon.

DAVID PAYMER plays the scientist who devised that weapon that costs him and others their lives.

HUDSON LEICK plays one of Brynner's lethal minions who kills several people.

Scenes listed under "Violence" and "Blood/Gore" as well as those concerning the general premise of the bomb detonating if it reaches a temperature of 50 degrees may be unsettling and/or tense to some viewers. All of that, of course, depends on the viewer's age and tolerance for such material.

As Long is prepared to test "Elvis," he suddenly discovers that the blast radius will be much larger than expected. As the explosion then goes off, his assistant and various soldiers try to flee.

With Arlo and Mason having hidden Long and his device in the diner, Brynner comes in and begins looking around and acting menacingly.

Some men pursue the ice cream truck on motorcycles and one of them then fights Mason on top of it after Mason slithers along the side and then dangles from the open and wildly swinging back door.

Arlo tries to drive his large truck along a skinny and recent destroyed mountain highway that's crumbling under the weight of the truck, thus endangering it of possibly falling over the cliff.

Arlo and Mason careen down a tree-lined mountain in a boat, momentarily hanging on the edge of a ledge, before plummeting into a lake at the bottom.

The last part of the movie, where the villains chase the heroes and fight with them as the temperature of the weapon continually rises, may be suspenseful to some viewers.

Long's assistant and many soldiers are killed by an explosion that also devastates a small island.

As Brynner's forces overtake a base, at least 3 guards have their throats slit, another is shot dead, Long is wounded and the villains shoot open a door.

Long drives through a gate, breaking the wooden gate arm.

A dog briefly attacks one of Brynner's men.

A motorcyclist pulls a gun on Arlo who then swerves his truck to make the villain crash headfirst into another oncoming truck, killing him.

One of Brynner's men fights Mason on top of a moving truck. As such, he punches Mason several times, pulls out a knife and then steps on Mason's fingers as the latter holds onto the edge of the truck. That man then gets clotheslined, however, by an approaching rock formation hanging over the road, and then falls and crashes into a car windshield and is killed.

A bazooka (or similar weapon) is used to blow up a tanker truck, presumably killing the driver.

A villain rappels down in front of Arlo and Mason's truck, firing his gun at him. Their truck, however, hits and kills him as he hangs in front of it.

Their truck then crashes and flips over with another smaller truck crashing into it.

Mason aims his (empty) gun at a man so that he and Arlo can take his boat.

Brynner holds his gun on Arlo's boss, threatening to shoot him.

Vaughn shoots Mason in the knee as he and Arlo try to escape. She then kicks him while he's lying on the ground. Later, she hits him in the face with her gun and then kicks him again.

Brynner and Vaughn riddle a truck with gunfire.

The bad guys sideswipe a car.

Brynner and Vaughn repeatedly ram a truck from behind.

A military helicopter fires missiles that blow up two vehicles and later it fires more that blow up and then seal the entrances to a tunnel.

Pappas aims his gun at Arlo and Mason.

Mason kicks and knees Vaughn and then grabs Brynner, pulling him down from a ladder where both then fall onto a car below them. He then chases and tackles Brynner and the two then exchange punches.

A man stabs another man in the chest with a long and sharp thermometer.